The women, gender, and development reader / edited by Nalini Visvanathan (co-ordinator) ; Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff, and Nan Wiegersma.
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London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. :
Zed Books,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Theories of Women, Gender and Development. The Making of a Field: Advocates, Practitioners and Scholars
- Accumulation, Reproduction and Women's Role in Economic Development: Boserup Revisited
- Gender and Development
- Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development
- Women in Nature
- The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India
- The African Context: Women in the Political Economy
- Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
- Bargaining with Patriarchy
- pt. 2. Households and Families. Accounting for Women's Work: The Progress of Two Decades
- Daughters, Decisions and Dominations: An Empirical and Conceptual Critique of Household Strategies
- The Hidden Roots of the African Food Problem: Looking within the Rural Household
- Subordination and Sexual Control: A Comparative View of the Control of Women
- Wife Abuse in the Context of Development and Change: A Chinese (Taiwanese) Case
- Single-parent Families: Choice or Constraint? The Formation of Female-headed Households in Mexican Shanty Towns
- pt. 3. Women in the Global Economy. The Subordination of Women and the Internationalization of Factory Production
- Maquiladoras: The View from the Inside
- Capitalism, Imperialism and Patriarchy: The Dilemma of Third World Women Workers in Multinational Factories
- Women in the Informal Labor Sector: The Case of Mexico City
- Deindustrialization and the Growth of Women's Economic Associations and Networks in Urban Tanzania
- pt. 4. International Women in Social Transformation. Impact of the Economic Crisis on Poor Women and their Households
- Ghana: Women in the Public and Informal Sectors under the Economic Recovery Programme
- Abuses against Women and Girls under the One-child Family Plan in the People's Republic of China
- Women, Population and the Environment: Whose Consensus, Whose Empowerment?
- AIDS: Women Are Not Just Transmitters
- Gender, Nation and Colonialism: Lessons from the Philippines
- Women, Marriage and the State in Iran
- Return to the Veil: Personal Strategy and Public Participation in Egypt
- Capitalism and Socialism: Some Feminist Questions
- Downwardly Mobile: Women in the Decollectivization of East European Agriculture
- Women Organizing Themselves for Change
- Introduction to Part 5
- Planning from a Gender Perspective
- Women as Political Actors in Rural Puerto Rico: Continuity and Change
- Women and the Labour Movement in South Korea
- SEWA: Women in Movement
- Historical introduction and theoretical debates; households and families; women in the global economy; international women in social transformation; women organizing themselves for change.